There are certain things in life you can just never go wrong with in your predictions of how they’re going to play out, like the perennial disappointment Arsenal fans have to go through when the early season promise of their team comes to a settlement for nothing more than a top-four finish, or how the gyms are going to be having a field day with all the new and returning members filing through their doors as we usher in the new year.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with making use of the turn of the new year as a marker for effecting a positive change in your life, one of which is perhaps taking better care of your health and exercising more for better fitness, but if you want to realise the sort of success you might have been missing all these years, your personal health and fitness year should only really kick-off in the month of February. Why? Well it has everything to do with the January health and fitness rush.
January Should be Your Recon Month
You might have all your health and fitness goals vividly visualised or you might have even gone as far as writing them down and even manifesting them into a solid eating and exercise plan, but the month of January has a knack for disrupting plans rather spectacularly. You might go along smoothly for the first couple of days or even past an entire week or so, religiously making use of the protein powder you bought to supplement your diligent work in the gym with an appropriate protein shake, but all it takes is for one small disruption to throw your entire plan off course.
Your health and fitness efforts don’t have to be the area in which the disruption occurs for them to go off course — you could have a disruption at work or in your business for instance and then have that derail your fitness and health terrace. The reason is we make resolutions in many areas of our lives as we enter the first month of the year and things can get really crazy, only really settling down after a little while.
You’ll be trying to find your feet and settle into a routine perhaps with regards to your career, personal relationships and any other important area of your life and so you shouldn’t beat yourself up about not being able to settle into a healthy-eating and exercise routine that shows that you’re serious about bettering yourself physically this year.
That’s why your health and fitness year should only really kick off in February, when you’ve put yourself though your paces in all areas of your life and you’ve had some practical experience with what works, what doesn’t, and what needs a bit of tweaking for maximum efficiency. Could you realistically fit in two hours of exercise per day as you initially thought, for instance, in the wake of the added pressure at work which leaves you too tired to even think about hitting the gym on the way from work?
Such things become apparent in the first month of the year, which you can then use to create and stick to a solid exercise and healthy-living programme going forward from the month of February.
